For Galleries’ Nights 2022, I participated in a duo exhibition with François Cambe, another artist working with an alternative photographic process. We both realized our common approach to iconography and decided to exhibit our work together in his studio. For this, I created a series of works replicating my ideas of creating relics based on what surrounded me. I continued my obsession with geckos and other lucky charms from my previous exhibition at Patpong Museum, which was also displayed at Galleries Night 2022.
This was the concept for the exhibition:
Our societies are overflowing with icons and representations of the human figure. Initially reserved for the divine, these representations have gradually drifted, passing from the nobles to the bourgeois to land in the hands of everyone who, through technological advances, can become an artist for a day or fill up the mundane void. Using anachronistic processes, Camelin and Cambe stage vernacular images, opposing the quest for the unique vs standardization, dematerialization vs handprinted. In a new narcissistic cosmology, crossing aesthetics, the two artists install dissonant relationships, seeking, through the images of yesterday, the meaning of those of today.
My work then travelled to Chiang Mai for the Mango Art Festival in Hang Dong. Curator and painter Myrtille Tibayrenc kindly invited me and several other artists to showcase their work for the festival. She constrained all the artists to work on a smaller scale, as the work had to be displayed in cabinets.